Here’s an interesting article we found on Huffington Post by Tom Perrelli, Associate Attorney General of the United States. He talks about the important role colleges and Universities play in helping end Sexual Assault.
September 2009 marked the 15 year anniversary of President Bill Clinton signing the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) into law. [...]
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Department of Justice: Colleges Part of the Solution to End Sexual Assault
Breaking the Silence: Sexual Assault on Campus
We have previously posted about the inadequacies of many college and university justice systems when it comes to the issue of sexual assault.
We found this very interesting article by Jaclyn Friedman, who talks about the issue and recounts her personal experience as a sexual assault survivor:
I’d heard horror stories about victims being grilled in excruciating [...]
Update: Sexual Assault on Campus
Here’s an update from a December post we did about Sexual Assault on Campus
The Center for Public Integrity has added some new articles to their report about college sexual assault.
Here’s a sampling of some of the interesting articles:
‘Undetected Rapists’ on Campus: A Troubling Plague of Repeat Offenders
An Uncommon Outcome at Holy Cross
New Report About Sexual Assault on Campus
A new report, based on a 9 month investigation by The Center for Public Integrity, sheds some light on college and univerity disciplinary procedures with cases of sexual assualt. Many colleges and universities use a flawed system to adjudicate allegations of student sexual assault.
From the report:
But official data from the schools themselves doesn’t begin to [...]
